Don’t accept hate and anger as the norm in Chicago

A young boy holds a sign that reads “I am not a threat” during a vigil for Wadea Al-Fayoume at the gymnasium of Prairie Activity & Recreation Center on Oct. 17 in Plainfield. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

Readers may have noticed something disturbing about the Friday print edition of the Sun-Times: Four pages in a row of reporting on unacceptable incidents of hate or hostility, all taking place right here in our city and suburbs. 

We — those of us who live in the Chicago area — are better than this. Or if not, we have to be.